No idea how many.
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@a34 ooooh inquiring minds want to know. We need hints as to who the manipulative brown noser might have been. Were they Engineering? sales? Senior management? Marketing? Physical location? Come on. Spill the tea.
@9yy You'll have to be more specific than "incompetent manipulative brown noser" that's like half the company. It describes almost as many people as "clinically depressed lifer who's putting in the bare minimum and hoping to ride this job to retirement".
The place is at this point is Survivor. Even the incompetent manipulative brown noser who’ve tried to keep riding this gravy train is now finally gone. I hope so very much hope his manager and his manager is also soon found out to be the frauds that they are and never rebound from it.
@54v wow. And there you go…. the end of Riverbed. Here’s irony ….a few years ago I remember being told not to use AI because “oh my God” it was against company policy and then of course a year or so later, they rolled out their “alleged AI product” . And now AI is going to replace not just employees but entire product lines. Which means essentially the company is done. Who needs Riverbed when you can build it yourself in a week or less with the assistance of an AI agent. Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of managers, considering how they treated their most senior and most productive people when we were no longer needed…. dumping us like the garbage. I wonder if some of those worthless managers are still there…. probably… they’re probably the last ones to go. We are in some very strange times. I am very glad to be out of this industry.
@54v
NPM dinosaur hardware will be dead in 12months. Rising compute costs have placed Riverbed NPM at the lowest of customer priorities in terms of any infrastructure or any hardware refresh lifecycles. Assets will be sweated out as it’s non critical infrastructure in the majority of cases.
Then you have IQ AIOps product main native telemetry sources being NPM. Not looking good for Riverbeds Observability.
I see Aternity SaaS DEX as the only survivable hero here.
Don't worry about AI replacing individual jobs. Worry about AI replacing whole product lines.
Think about Profiler. It's a bloated mess and has more technical debt than lines of code at this point. Nobody actually likes using Profiler. But customers who do still use it typically point to a bare handful of features that they specifically need. Those features stay in because otherwise Riverbed loses that customer, but most customers don't need them and all together they're a huge drag on performance.
I could sit down with Claude Code, the NetFlow specs, and Riverbed's patents and have a stripped-down version of Profiler in a week. I'm not joking. I'm not exaggerating. It would cost me a couple hundred bucks. It wouldn't have everything, not by a long shot, but it would have the handful of features I need, nothing I don't, and as a result the features I do need would perform way better and work exactly how I want. Yeah, it would violate any patents that are still valid, but who's going to know?
If that occurred to ME, not paying thousands in renewals, then you better believe it's occurred to a few customers, and it's going to occur to more. It costs them practically nothing to try; they don't have to commit until it works well enough.
Why wouldn't they? What does Riverbed offer that they can't get by vibe-coding? Brilliant customer service? Fast bug fixes? Competitive pricing? The promise that it'll definitely still be in business next year? Riverbed's not the only vendor that's going to suffer from customers deciding to move tooling in-house. Everyone who's living on over-priced renewals is in danger, but after years of mismanagement and non-investment Riverbed is particularly vulnerable.
I saw a job listing fr Riverbed on LinkedIn today. Good luck with that, Riverbed! You’d have to be really desperate to take that job. It would be a stain on your resume at this point.
Any word on how many people got laid off?
I know three people were laid off 1/22/26.
I could say so much but I'll just say that company is dead. If I'm hiring elsewhere and see that company on a resume, it goes into the trash. If they were leadership I warn my friends.
Payback is a bi--h.
Who, in their right mind, still works at Riverbed? It might make sense if you are close to retirement…
@1d4 ooooh. I can think of a few middle managers that would be great examples of artificial mediocrity. Except they are real. Sadly. And still there.
Don't worry: Artificial Intelligence won't replace anybody at Riverbed. But if they ever invent Artificial Mediocrity, look out!!!
Good times. Guess the strategy ain’t so great. Or have robots and AI replaced everyone
Hearing from those impacted across Channel, Sales Engineering, & Product Marketing.
And no backfill to recent departures.
Layoffs last Wednesday. Multiple BUs affected (at least 3 by my count). No other details yet